I am giving wayland a try on my kde neon system.

Can anyone give me any tips please?

Logged on to a wayland session and some programmes do not appear to work - for example chromium and konqueror. Others like dolphin and firefox work fine.

Thanks

System specs are:

Operating System: KDE neon 5.26
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-52-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

I have never been able to get wayland to work properly with Nvidia. But I have 2 notebooks with Intel chips. We only use wayland there now.

Chromium normaly is a snap. Maybe this is a Problem. Use Brave-Browser. https://git.osit.cc/public-projects/kde ... staller.sh

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apt install curl -y
curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"| tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
apt update
apt install brave-browser -y

Thanks for your post boospy007.

Yes I think you are right as I have a nvidia graphics card.

I have an old HP laptop which also has kde neon on it. This has an intel graphics and, similiar to your experience, this works fine with wayland.

Chromium snap doesn't seem to like my system either (AMD graphics) , but Konq works fine for me here.

I cannot comment on Nvidia, though this is well known to be more problematic on Wayland. I have been using it exclusively for over a year now with minimal issues for most of that time.

One thing I do see is that xorg and Wayland on my dual monitor setup seem to use unique display settings, so my configuration changes in Wayland are not carried over in Xorg (and vice versa), mainly just the wallpaper and primary settings. My solution is to stop switching

gfielding wrote:I am giving wayland a try on my kde neon system.
Can anyone give me any tips please?

Running pure wayland environment for over a year now. Fortunately I have an Intel graphics and I do not need any non compatible applications.
As SDDM currently still started a X session (development version could be configured to use wayland?) then I'm booting my laptop to runlevel 3, logging in and then starting Plasma Wayland session with:

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dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland

To check if programs are running in Wayland or in X(wayland) session:

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qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.showDebugConsole

Most non-compatible among my used applications in Neon 20.04 was Firefox, which needed an environment variable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, but after switching to mozillateam repository Firefox, that is not needed any more